Senior Requirements Engineer — Federal Programs

ActioNet, Inc.; Suitland (MD); Hybrid; USD 148,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

Life and AD&D Insurance

401(k) Savings Plan

Education and Professional Training

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Employee Referral and MeritRecognition

Paid Holidays: 11 per year

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Disability Insurance

Job summary

ActioNet, Inc. seeks a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Requirements Engineer to join a large-scale federal modernization program. You will define, elicit, validate, and manage solution-level requirements across complex systems from discovery to deployment and operations.

This is a hands-on role with real elicitation sessions and traceable artifacts, not just coordination. The position is hybrid with two on-site days per week in Suitland, MD, and U.S. citizenship is required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of requirements engineering, business analysis, or systems analysis experience on federal or comparably complex enterprise programs.
• Ability to elicit and document multiple requirement types and convert stakeholder language into measurable acceptance criteria.
• Hands-on experience with requirements traceability, baselining, version control, change impact analysis, and review/approval workflows.

Responsibilities

• Requirements Elicitation & Analysis
• Plan and facilitate discovery sessions, interviews, technical working groups, stakeholder reviews, and design reviews.
• Translate business and mission needs into complete, testable functional, technical, operational, security, data, interface, and performance requirements.
• Traceability & Baselines
• Establish and maintain requirements baselines and traceability from business need through architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Maintain requirements status, completion, changes, dependencies, assumptions, decisions, risks, and supporting evidence.
• Change Impact Analysis
• Analyze proposed changes and document impacts to architecture, scope, schedule, cost, testing, dependencies, security, and operational readiness.
• Support review and approval workflows for requirements changes.
• Cross-Team Collaboration
• Partner with project managers, architects, engineers, cybersecurity, testers, and operations to resolve requirements conflicts and gaps.
• Prepare requirements packages, review records, traceability matrices, and recurring status metrics.
• Quality & Mentorship
• Define templates and quality standards for requirements documentation.
• Review complex requirements work, mentor other engineers, and represent requirements management in governance forums.

Skills

Cross-Team Collaboration

Job description

ActioNet, Inc. seeks a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Requirements Engineer to join a large-scale federal modernization program. You will define, elicit, validate, and manage solution-level requirements across complex systems from discovery to deployment and operations.

This is a hands-on role with real elicitation sessions and traceable artifacts, not just coordination. The position is hybrid with two on-site days per week in Suitland, MD, and U.S. citizenship is required.